by Jim Olsztynski | Apr 28, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
Legal or not, you’ll have to choose between a career and getting high. We live in a society in which use of marijuana and other illegal drugs is widespread. One recent survey showed that about one out of 11 Americans uses illicit drugs regularly. Another says...
by Jim Olsztynski | Apr 21, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
Service firms in particular clamor for female technicians. Okay, this myth is admittedly hard to refute. Most estimates peg females as only about 2% to 2.5% of all skilled trade workers. That’s probably doubled since the rise of feminism in the 1960s, but...
by Jim Olsztynski | Apr 10, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
Job security is higher for skilled trade workers than most other occupations. This myth originates in the fact that construction work is highly cyclical. While it’s true that when work slows down many construction workers get let go, this deserves a closer...
by Jim Olsztynski | Apr 4, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
Performance pay often leads to six-figure incomes. How much do trade workers earn? That’s a difficult question to answer definitively because so much depends on the type of work (construction versus service, residential vs. commercial, etc.), geographic region...
